Dean0178
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So, I've read up on a few workflows (including Workflow smart collections – John Beardsworth) and come up with a system that seems to work pretty good so far. It seems all good on paper, rather... but, I'm a little confused by maybe the intended usage of some of the smart collections.
A "No Title" collection is fine... You open the collection, give an image a title, hit enter and voila: the image has a title and is removed from the collection. And having a smart collection for "No cropping" for instance which contains photos that have no cropping applied sounds like a great idea!
But in practice it's a little frustrating.
Say you have 46 images which need cropping. You click on the collection and start to work on the first image. BUT, as soon as you do anything crop-wise (I usually first enforce a 2x3/4x6 AR), the photo is then removed from the collection and the photo disappears as it no longer meets the requirements of the collection, leaving the photo technically cropped, but maybe I wasn't done!
I was wondering if there was a way to say, PAUSE, the rules processing so that I can continue cropping images. The same issue crops up (pun intended) having a "Has Edits = false" collection. Are these smart collections really just a way to see HOW MANY images need cropped/editted? Of course, I could add a "needsCropping" or "needsDevelop" keyword and key off of that, but it would be nice if there was a more automated way.
A "No Title" collection is fine... You open the collection, give an image a title, hit enter and voila: the image has a title and is removed from the collection. And having a smart collection for "No cropping" for instance which contains photos that have no cropping applied sounds like a great idea!
But in practice it's a little frustrating.
Say you have 46 images which need cropping. You click on the collection and start to work on the first image. BUT, as soon as you do anything crop-wise (I usually first enforce a 2x3/4x6 AR), the photo is then removed from the collection and the photo disappears as it no longer meets the requirements of the collection, leaving the photo technically cropped, but maybe I wasn't done!
I was wondering if there was a way to say, PAUSE, the rules processing so that I can continue cropping images. The same issue crops up (pun intended) having a "Has Edits = false" collection. Are these smart collections really just a way to see HOW MANY images need cropped/editted? Of course, I could add a "needsCropping" or "needsDevelop" keyword and key off of that, but it would be nice if there was a more automated way.